When you cross into the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, Louisiana, over the Crescent City Connection bridge there is no sign that says, “Welcome to the Arrest Capital of the United States.”
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When Shirley Chisholm Ran for President, Few Would Say: “I’m With Her”
The congresswoman tried to win the White House by consolidating the black vote and the women’s vote, but she ran into trouble
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Potential Homeland Security Pick Wanted to Suspend Habeas Corpus, Jail One Million
This seems relevant. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. visited president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Monday.
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No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along
Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper.
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here: Cornel West
Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
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HUD Is Essential to the Fight Against Poverty. Ben Carson Will Lobotomize It.
“…The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency.”
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Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Expansion of Overtime Pay for Millions of Workers
“Employers that made big changes in their workforce ahead of the rule’s Dec. 1 effective date—either by raising managers’ salaries to the newly set threshold for overtime pay or eliminating job categories like assistant manager—say they aren’t yet planning to reverse course, while others are taking a wait-and-see approach,” the Wall Street Journal.
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Alt-right retaliates against Twitter ban by creating ‘fake black accounts’
Extreme right-wing users hit back with false accounts after being kicked off Twitter, as the social network tries to crack down on hate speech.
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This Is All Your Fault: To Defeat Donald Trump We Need Shared Goals
I’ve been sitting in “safe spaces” lately listening to others absorb the collective trauma from a Donald Trump victory.
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Why the Democrats Need Keith Ellison
The candidate for DNC chairman wants to lead an anti-Trump resistance, not search for areas of cooperation.
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